President Donald Trump declared during a marathon State of the Union on Tuesday that “we’re winning so much” — insisting he’d sparked an economic boom at home and…
Read more Trump uses longest-ever State of the Union to try to convince voters that US is ‘winning so much’On the one-year anniversary of the start of his second term, President Donald Trump spent 104 minutes in the White House press room listing his accomplishments. Trump started…
Read more Fact-checking Trump’s marathon press briefing at 1 yearI urge anyone that is at the scene to leave immediately. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara urging protesters to go home Wednesday night amid clashes with law enforcement…
Read more Latest shooting is 17th time immigration officials have fired at civilians in Trump’s second termIn her bid for a second term, Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman pulled above 50% for the first time since vote counting began in last week’s primary…
Read more L.A. City Councilmember Nithya Raman pulls past 50%, on verge of outright primary winAs President Joe Biden prepares to deliver his State of the Union address tonight, his pathways to reelection are narrowing. His best remaining option, despite all of the…
Read more Can Biden Begin a Reset Tonight?The long decline of the Republican Party’s internationalist wing may have reached a tipping point. Since Donald Trump emerged as the GOP’s dominant figure in 2016, he has…
Read more The GOP Has Crossed an Ominous Threshold on Foreign PolicyListen to this article Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration. Americans likely face a choice this fall between two men they don’t want…
Read more The Real Difference Between Trump and BidenBill Brand, the mayor of Redondo Beach, died Friday evening of lung cancer, according to city officials. He was 65. Brand had been battling cancer for more than…
Read more Redondo Beach mayor dies at 65 of lung cancerThe American experiment with constitutional democracy is in grave peril. If Donald Trump becomes president again, fighting to preserve U.S. constitutional democracy through his second term will require…
Read more Amending the Constitution Is Impossible Until Suddenly It’s NotPresident Joe Biden and Democrats cannot win the debate over the economy without fundamentally reframing the terms of the choice they are offering voters, an extensive new research…
Read more Why Biden Should Shift the Debate to This TopicDuring his term in the White House, Donald Trump governed as a wartime president—with blue America, rather than any foreign country, as the adversary. He sought to use…
Read more A War on Blue AmericaIn late 2020, even as the instigators of insurrection were marshaling their followers to travel to Washington, D.C., another kind of coup—a quieter one—was in the works. On…
Read more Civil Rights UndoneAfter decades of gains in public acceptance, the LGBTQ community is confronting a climate in which political leaders are once again calling them weirdos and predators. Texas Governor…
Read more Trump’s Plan to Police GenderIn the annals of government ethics, the year 2017 exists in a bygone era. That September, Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services, Tom Price, resigned in…
Read more Corruption UnboundLike many reporters, I’ve been operating in Casaubon mode for much of the past eight years, searching for the key to Donald Trump’s mythologies. No single explanation of…
Read more A WarningSo long, George Santos, we hardly knew ye—and that was pretty much the problem. This morning, House members evicted one of their own for only the sixth time…
Read more George Santos Was Finally Too Much for RepublicansA press release that President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign issued last week offered a revealing window into his advisers’ thinking about how he might overcome widespread discontent with…
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Read more Dean Phillips Has a Warning for DemocratsOf the many targets Donald Trump has attacked over the years, few engender less public sympathy than the career workforce of the federal government—the faceless mass of civil…
Read more The Open Plot to Dismantle the Federal GovernmentUpdated at 9:00 a.m. ET on September 22, 2023 A few weeks ago, the Texas anti-abortion activist Mark Lee Dickson told me that he viewed Donald Trump as…
Read more Trump Said the ‘Wrong’ Thing on Abortion
